Shelby Skrhak
Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.
This week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, is actually four homes in a new neighborhood of the East Village near Uptown. They’re called Kirby Residences and agent Courtney Tauriac of Beck Realty is fresh off the finishing touches for these modern townhomes. These modern stucco homes…
This week’s Splurge versus Steal takes us to one of the most impressive luxury high-rise towers in the Metroplex — Windrose Tower at Legacy West in west Plano. The 27-story glass tower above the corridor at the Dallas North Tollway and SH 121 is now completed and 70 percent sold. Windrose Tower overlooks 400,000 square…
Splintered wood, insulation, and charred kitchen cabinetry sat for weeks after a Plano home gas explosion until the owner finally cleared the rubble under threat of property lien. Plano city officials were prepared to condemn the possibly uninsured property after repeated requests to clean up the hazardous site. The violent gas explosion may have been…
We knew the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market was hot, but get this. WalletHub named Frisco as the best real estate market in the country in its 2021’s Best Real-Estate Markets report released yesterday. The country! The personal-finance website compared 300 cities across two key categories, “Real-Estate Market” and “Affordability & Economic Environment.” Specifically, they…
When you’re building a new home, the options for backyard features can be overwhelming. What’s popular? What’s possible? What materials are readily available here, and not just an obscurity found in Architectural Digest? That’s where local builders like Tony Visconti and Bella Custom Homes come in. Browse their gallery-filled website and social media channels to…
